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Mountain Lions in Arkansas.
Posted on 11/13/14 at 5:33 pm
Posted on 11/13/14 at 5:33 pm
I have personally known people who for several years talked about sightings of mountain lions. I think the Game & Fish commission finally admitted within the past few years that there is a breeding population in the mountainous areas of the state. Now a hunter has killed one for the first time in nearly 40 years.
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2014/nov/13/mountain-lion-killed-arkansas-first-1975/
ETA: The guy who shot it is from Bastrop, LA.
story and pic
This post was edited on 11/13/14 at 5:51 pm
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Posted on 11/13/14 at 5:37 pm to wmr
No one took a pic?
Posted on 11/13/14 at 5:39 pm to Walt OReilly
I just saw the news story come across my twitter. Haven't seen a pic yet.
Posted on 11/13/14 at 5:41 pm to wmr
OP updated. The guy who killed it is from Louisiana.
Posted on 11/13/14 at 5:58 pm to wmr
Of course he is
Posted on 11/13/14 at 6:11 pm to wmr
Posted on 11/13/14 at 6:19 pm to wmr
He is in big trouble.
Posted on 11/13/14 at 6:19 pm to wmr
Wait a minute.... They aren't black?
Posted on 11/13/14 at 6:20 pm to wmr
Was camping in the Ouachita NF with the family and a buddy and his family probably ten years ago between Albert Pike and Bard Springs in this camp site between the mountains that kind of acted like a funnel along the road/creek. We were riding four wheelers and saw one cross the road in front of us in daylight.
Later that night, we were sitting around the campfire doing the camping thing with the kids who were all little and our wiener dog when that thing came right up to the camp without anyone knowing it and let out a scream that was the most blood curdling every hair on your body rising terrifying thing I have ever heard other than a tornado running over me. It was apparently passing through and had to come close to the camp to do it. Either that or it had intentionally come up to our camp and was pissed it couldn't get a kid or a dog. Needless the say the rest of the night was spent with guns in our hands.
The scream came from between the camp and the creek which means that thing was within twenty yards of us and we never saw a thing and the dog never smelled it.
Later that night, we were sitting around the campfire doing the camping thing with the kids who were all little and our wiener dog when that thing came right up to the camp without anyone knowing it and let out a scream that was the most blood curdling every hair on your body rising terrifying thing I have ever heard other than a tornado running over me. It was apparently passing through and had to come close to the camp to do it. Either that or it had intentionally come up to our camp and was pissed it couldn't get a kid or a dog. Needless the say the rest of the night was spent with guns in our hands.
The scream came from between the camp and the creek which means that thing was within twenty yards of us and we never saw a thing and the dog never smelled it.
This post was edited on 11/13/14 at 6:23 pm
Posted on 11/13/14 at 6:38 pm to glassman
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He is in big trouble.
Article said he hasn't been charged.
Posted on 11/13/14 at 6:41 pm to bbvdd
He used the "It's coming right at me!" defense.
Posted on 11/13/14 at 7:17 pm to Captain Rumbeard
I've heard them from a distance and its creepy as hell.
Posted on 11/13/14 at 7:22 pm to wmr
Very large house cat, nothing to see here. 
Posted on 11/13/14 at 7:27 pm to Captain Rumbeard
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it had intentionally come up to our camp and was pissed it couldn't get a kid or a dog.
They are very curious.
Posted on 11/13/14 at 7:30 pm to glassman
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According to state regulations, “non-game wildlife (except migratory birds and endangered species) that present a reasonable threat to people or property may be shot during daylight hours or trapped without a depredation permit.”
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He is in big trouble.
Why do you say that? Old man said he felt threatened.
Posted on 11/13/14 at 7:31 pm to LSUintheNW
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Why do you say that? Old man said he felt threatened.
I would have said the same thing.
Posted on 11/13/14 at 7:34 pm to Captain Rumbeard
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it had intentionally come up to our camp and was pissed it couldn't get a kid or a dog.
The ability to read the mind of a Puma concolor is a rare talent.
Posted on 11/13/14 at 7:37 pm to Nodust
I live in Southern Arkansas, and I've had all kinds of Lion sightings in my neighborhood. We kill a lot of deer, and discard their carcasses, and that's when the sightings take off...But, I've never seen one, and I'm always out hunting, and have lots of game cameras out. I need to do a carcass camera set, but just think people are just seeing things.... 
Posted on 11/13/14 at 7:39 pm to Nodust
Ok, why though?
Posted on 11/13/14 at 7:40 pm to CamdenTiger
I've never seen one either and I have deer and elk in my "backyard". Others I know have seen the neighborhood cat. Still not sure I want to
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